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Jefferson Hospital in Louisville, GA is in Jefferson County, GA, is in the Southern states, better than the national rate of hospital return days for pneumonia patients, provides emergency services, meets criteria for promoting interoperability of Electronic Health Records, is acute care, is government-owned (hospital district or authority), its emergency department volume is low, is better than the national patient-care averages in both readmission and timeliness of care, and is better than the nationwide emergency department averages in each of admit decision to inpatient admission, arrival to discharge, arrival to discharge for psychiatrics, and patients who left before being seen.
Numeric values:
- healthcare workers given influenza vaccination (96%)
- patients who left the emergency department before being seen (0%)
- change in overall hospital rating over one year (+1 star)
- change in overall hospital rating over two years (+1 star)
- overall hospital rating (4 stars)
- median time from admit decision to time of departure from the emergency department for patients admitted to inpatient status (50 mins)
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged patients (100 mins)
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged psychiatric/mental health patients (138 mins)